{"id":26776,"date":"2011-06-17T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shns_terry_mattingly-the_battle_over_circumcision\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:14:44","slug":"shns_terry_mattingly-the_battle_over_circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26776","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Terry Mattingly&#8211;The Battle over circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it, a growing number of modern Americans are convinced that it&#8217;s time for government officials to do some cutting and snipping in the pages of the holy books that define some of the world&#8217;s major religions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you have here is an assault, by a popular referendum, on a central ritual in a recognized ancient religion,&#8221; said Marc Stern, associate general counsel for legal advocacy at the American Jewish Committee. While the current initiative may seem brazen, &#8220;it&#8217;s really nothing new. It&#8217;s easy for historians to find sources showing how the Greeks and Romans mocked the Jews for practicing circumcision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/religion-faith061511\/religion-faith061511\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it, a growing number of modern Americans are convinced that it&#8217;s time for government officials to do some cutting and snipping in the pages of the holy books that define some of the world&#8217;s major religions. &#8220;What<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26776\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,615,104,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}